Hungary’s Pal Schmitt, one of five candidates for the presidency of the International Olympic Committee, says that Beijing has an outstanding chance to win the 2008 Summer Olympic Games.
“It would be fantastic for a country with one billion population to hold the Olympics”, he said.
Schmitt also believes that IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch has no personal favourites among the five candidates. “All of us have completed the Samaranch school. He hasn’t committed himself to any of us”, Schmitt commented on a morning talk show on commercial ATV televison.
Schmitt added, “we will be judged by whatever we’ve done in the Olympic movement”. But he cautioned that there should be no tension among the candidates in the post-Samaranch era.
“We can’t afford to have tension in our relationship after the election. We will all have to work together”, he said.
